Bob Seger “I will answer the wind,” Bob Seger sings in “Wait for Me,” a cut from his first new studio album in more than a decade.

Forward into the past! Could it be just a coincidence that as I sit here writing this, a grizzled Bob Seger is gearing up for the release of Face the Promise , the Detroit rocker’s first proper studio album in, oh, forever and a day? The Lemonheads, "No Backbone" (mp3)